Bungie.net reported that this past Saturday, Halo 3 has facilitated one billion online matches. In our current times of trillion-dollar budgets, it's easy to get desensitized to how big numbers ending in 'illion' are so here's a fun little stat:
A human being won't live to see a billion seconds until after their 31st birthday.
And yet, a game that came out in late 2007 has already accrued one billion matches. That's not even counting play time.
Thankfully, the good folks at Bungie figured we'd want to see that too, so they dove into their archives to fish out that stat too. This stat might be a little misleading because it's a mass stat of each individual's play time rather than a total time that matchmaking has been active. Keep that in mind; if a match had five participants then the match's time will be multiplied by five before being added to this total.
As of the Bungie report, Halo 3 players have spent 2,023,153,340,764 seconds in matchmaking.
Yep, 2 TRILLION seconds. Now let's look at that in terms of crazy stats:
Human beings as we know them didn't even exist a trillion seconds ago. Neanderthals were still the most evolved species on Earth and even the concept of civilization was in its infancy.
We all love games, but 2 trillion seconds on just a single game in a year and a half? Holy shit! Imagine what we could do if it was physically possible to devote this kind of time to focused scientific research. We'd probably have cancer cured by now.
And on that note, I'm going to go play some Halo 3,
-That Guy
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